ROBERT M. STERN
Curriculum Vitae
August 2014
Address
4248 Gilbert Street
Oakland, CA 94116-5116
Telephone: 510-879-7733
E-mail:
http://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/Robert_Stern
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1958
M.B.A., University of Chicago, 1952
B.S., University of California (Berkeley), 1948
Academic Honors and Fellowships
Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellow, 1964-1965
Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands, 1958-59
Columbia University: University Fellow, 1955-56
Economics Alumni Fellow, 1956-57
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, 1957-58
University of California: Phi Beta Kappa, 1948
Other Awards
Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL), recipient of first prize of $10,000 in an essay contest on the topic, “Labor Standards and Income Distribution and Their Relation to Trade,” October 1998.
American Participant Grantee to Indonesia and Malaysia, U.S. Information Agency, August 1995.
University of Michigan, LS&A Excellence in Education Award, June 1995.
American Participant Grantee to India and Sri Lanka, U.S. Information Agency, November-December 1990
American Participant Grantee to Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Japan, U.S. Information Agency, February 1985; Turkey, May 1985
Fulbright Grant for Research in Belgium and Switzerland, April-June, 1982
Short-Term Assistance Grantee to India and Spain, U.S. International Communication Agency, February 1980
American Specialist Program in Japan, U.S. State Department, December 1977
American Specialist Program in the Caribbean, U.S. State Department, February-March, 1977
Short-Term Assistance Grantee to Japan, U.S. Information Agency, November 1973
Employment
Visiting Professor, UC-Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, January 2011 to date
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan, 1983-99; Emeritus 1999 to date
Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, 1966-99; Emeritus 1999 to date
Head, International Program and Concentration, School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 1980-99
Visiting Professor of Economics, Brandeis University, 1988-89
Visiting Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring 1978
Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii, Spring, 1975
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, 1963-66
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, 1961-63
Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University, 1959-61
Instructor of Economics, Union College (Schenectady), 1953-54
Consulting and Contractual Research
International Trade Centre, 2013
World Bank, 2001-13
Ministry of Trade and Industry, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, January-July 2007
Mark Twain Institute, 1998-2001
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1996-97
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 1995-96 and 1997-99
United Nations Development Program (UNDP), 1994-95
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1993
U.S. National Commission for Employment Policy, 1991-92
Economic Council of Canada, 1987-89
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 1983-86
Office of Foreign Economic Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980-89, 1993-98, 2003-04
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, 1974-75, 1981-82
Office of External Research, U.S. State Department, 1979-80
Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, 1978-79
Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department, 1975-77
Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, 1973-75
Trade Agreements Division, U.S. State Department, 1970-74
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 1966
Other Experience
Special Advisory Council, National Bureau of Asian Research, August 2006 to date
General Editor, International Economic Studies, World Scientific Publishing Co., May 2006 to date
Academic Coordinator, Coalition of Service Industries, First World Services Congress, 1999
Advisory Board, International Studies Review, December 1997 to date
Executive Committee, School of Public Policy, September 1997-99
Senior Editor, Journal of Asian Economics, November 1997 to date
Advisory Council, Korea Economic Institute of America, 1996-2001
Editorial Advisory Board, The World Economy, July 1990 to date
Editorial Board, International Studies in the Service Economy, Kluwer Academic Publishers, March 1990 to date
Editorial Advisory Board, Open Economies Review, January 1990-2004; Co-editor, 1996-2004
Executive Committee, University of Michigan Press, 1993-94
General Editor, Studies in International Economics, University of Michigan Press, 1989-2002
Associate Editor, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1986-92
2014
“My Studies in International Economics,” in Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramattran (eds.), Eminent Economists II − Their Life and Work Philosophies, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
2013
“International Affairs Forum Report on the BRICS Countries, International Affairs, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2013.
“The Multilateral Trading System,” in Arvid Lukauskas, Robert M. Stern, and Gianni Zanini (eds.), Handbook of Trade Policy for Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
“Labor Standards and Human Rights: Implications for International Trade and Investment,” with Drusilla K. Brown and Alan V. Deardorff, in Zdenek Drabek and Petros C Mavroidis,(eds.), Regulations of Foreign Investment: Challenges to International Harmonization, World Scientific, 2013.
2012
“Issues of Fairness in the WTO and the Global Trading System,” with Andrew G. Brown, in Martin J. Daunton, Amrita Narlikar, and Robert M. Stern (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization, Oxford University Press, 2012.
“Introduction and Overview,” in Robert M. Stern (ed.), Quantitative Analysis of Newly Evolving Patterns of International Trade: Fragmentation; Offshoring of Activities; and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade, World Scientific, 2012.
2011
Reprinted papers in Robert M. Stern (ed.), Comparative Advantage, Growth, and the Gains from Trade and Globalization: A Festschrift in Honor of Alan V. Deardorff, World Scientific, 2011.
Ch. 30, “Globalization’s Bystanders: Does Trade Liberalization Hurt Countries That Do Not Participate?” with Alan V. Deardorff, World Development, 34:8, 1419-29, 2006.
Ch. 36, “The Michigan Model of World Production and Trade,” excerpted from Alan V. Deardoff and Robert M. Stern, The Michigan Model of World Production and Trade: Theory and Applications, MIT Press, 1986, Ch. 2, pp. 9-36 and Ch. 10, 219-33.
Ch. 37, “The Effects of the Tokyo Round on the Structure of Protection,” with Alan V. Deardorff, in Robert E. Baldwin and Anne O. Krueger (eds.), The Structure and Evolution of Recent U.S. Trade Policy, University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Ch. 39, “The Effects of Protection on the Factor Content of Japanese and American Foreign Trade,” with Alan V. Deardorff and Robert W. Staiger, The Review Of Economics And Statistics, 30:3, 475-83, 1988.
Ch. 40, “A North American Free Trade Agreement: Analytical Issues and a Computational Assessment,” with Drusilla K. Brown and Alan V. Deardorff, The World Economy, January 1992.
Ch. 41, “Protection and Real Wages: Old and New Trade Theories and Their Empirical counterparts,” with Drusilla K. Brown and Alan V. Deardorff, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, Conference on Empirical Studies in International Trade, 1993.
Ch. 42, “The Liberalization of Services Trade: Potential Impacts in the Aftermath of the Uruguay Round,” with Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, and Alan K. Fox, in Will Martin and L. Alan Winters (eds.), The Uruguay Round and the Developing Countries, Cambridge University Press, Ch. 10, pp. 292-315, 1996.
Ch. 43, “Methods of Measurement of Nontariff Barriers,” excerpted from Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern, Measurement of Nontariff Barriers, Ch. 3 and App. 3, University of Michigan Press, 1998.
“FTAs and Governance of the Global Trading System,” with Andrew G. Brown, The World Economy, March 2011.
“Condemned to Cooperate? The Ends and Means of the Latest Transatlantic Commercial Initiative and Its Relationship to the WTO,” with Simon Evenett, in Simon J. Evenett and Robert M. Stern (eds.), Systemic Implications of Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation and Competition, World Scientific, 2011.
“Trade in Financial Services—Has the IMF Been Involved Constructively?” Margin, The Journal of Applied Economic Research, February 2011. Adapted from a Background Paper for the IMF Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), (http://www.ieo-imf.org/eval/complete/eval_06162009.html).
2010
“Computational Analysis of the Menu of U.S.-Japan Trade Policies,” with Drusilla K. Brown and Kozo Kiyota, The World Economy, June 2006, Vol. 29 (6), 805-55; updated and adapted, in John Gilbert (ed.), New Developments in Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Trade Policy, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Volume 7, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., forthcoming.
“Assessing the Potential of Services Trade in Developing Countries: An Overview,” with Olivier Cattaneo, Michael Engman, and Sebastian Saez, in International Trade in Services: New Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries, The World Bank, 2010.
“Designing a Pro-Active Stance for India in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations,” with Alan V. Deardorff, in Alokesh Barua and Robert M. Stern (eds.), The WTO and India: Issues and Negotiating Strategies, The Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2010.
“The Making of the WTO,” in Alokesh Barua and Robert M. Stern (eds.), The WTO and India: Issues and Negotiating Strategies,” The Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2010.
“Introduction and Overview,” in Robert M. Stern, Gavin Wright and Hugh Patrick (eds.), The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers by Gary R. Saxonhouse, World Scientific, 2010.
“Introduction: The World Trade Organization and Developing Economies,” with K.C. Fung, The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 19:1, 3-7, March, 2010.
2009
“Alternatives to the Doha Round,” with Alan V. Deardorff, Journal of Policy Modeling, 31:4:526-39, July-August.
“Some Reflections on Nurkse’s ‘Patterns of Trade and Development’,” with Alan V. Deardorff, in Rainer Kattel, Jan Kregel, and Erik Reinert (eds.), Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007): Classical Development Economics and its Relevance for Today, The Anthem Other Canon Series, 2009.
“Issues of Fairness in WTO Dispute Settlement,” with Andrew G. Brown, in James C. Hartigan (ed.), Trade Disputes and the Dispute Settlement Understanding of the WTO: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Volume 6, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2009.
2008
“Computational Analysis of APEC Trade Liberalization,” with Kozo Kiyota, Working Paper No. 59, APEC Study Center, Columbia University, presented at Roundtable Discussion, “Structural Reform, Policy Institutions: The Regional and International Agenda,” Co-sponsored by the APEC Study Center at Columbia University and the East Asia Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) at The Australian National University (ANU), Columbia University, New York, 20 June 2008.
“The Benefits of Financial Sector Liberalization for Least Developed Countries: A Case Study of Ethiopia”, with Kozo Kiyota and Barbara Peitsch, OECD Investment Policy Perspectives 2008, pp. 123-135, Paris: OECD.
“Storm in a Spaghetti Bowl: FTAs and the BRIICS,” with Kozo Kiyota and Margit Molnar, in Raed Safadi and Ralph Lattimore (eds.), Globalization and Emerging Economies: Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa, Paris: OECD, pp. 187-210,
“The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions, in Developing Countries,” with Drusilla K. Brown and Alan V. Deardorff, in R.E. Baldwin and L.A. Winters (eds.), Challenges to Globalization, University of Chicago Press, 2004. Reprinted in P. Collier and J.W. Gunning (eds.) Globalization and the Problem of Poverty, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2008.
“What Are the Issues in Using Trade Agreements to Improve Labor Standards?” with Andrew G. Brown, World Trade Review, Vol. 7, pp. 331-357, April 2008.
“An Analysis of a U.S.-SACU Free Trade Agreement,” with Drusilla K. Brown and Kozo Kiyota, World Development, 36(3): 461-484, March 2008
“Issues in U.S.-ROK Economic Relations,” with Kozo Kiyota, in Towards Sustainable Economic & Security Relations in East Asia: U.S. and ROK Policy Options. Washington, D.C.: Korea Economic Institute, 2008.
“Empirical Analysis of Barriers to International Services Transactions and the Consequences of Liberalization,” with Alan V. Deardorff, in Aaditya Mattoo, Robert M. Stern, and Gianni Zanini (eds.), A Handbook of International Trade in Services, Oxford University Press and The World Bank, 2008. Adapted for publication in Philippa Dee and Michael Ferrantino (eds.), Quantitative Methods for Assessing the Effects of Non-Tariff Measures and Trade Facilitation, World Scientific, 2005; also adapted for inclusion in J.R. Bryson and P.W. Daniels (eds.), The Service Industries Handbook, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2007.
“Overview,” with Aaditya Mattoo, in Aaditya Mattoo, Robert M. Stern, and Gianni Zanini (eds.), A Handbook of International Trade in Services, Oxford University Press and The World Bank, 2008.
2007
“Issues of Fairness in International Trade Agreements,” with Andrew G. Brown, Margin—The Journal of Applied Economic Research, Vol. 1 (1), January-March 2007, pp.1-22.
“Concepts of Fairness in the Global Trading System,” with Andrew G. Brown, Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 12, 293-318, August 2007.
“Reviving the Doha Round: The Agenda for the Developing Countries,” with Alan Deardorff and John Whalley, in Monitoring Trade Policy: A New Agenda for Reviving the Doha Round, Policy Monitoring Paper 1, Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), May 2007. Reprinted in United Nations, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, “Emerging Trade Issues for Policymakers in Developing Countries in Asia and the Pacific,” Studies in Trade and Investment, 64, 2008.
2006
“The Place of Services in the World Economy,” Colombian Economic Journal, 2006 (3); reprinted in ICFAI Professional Reference Book – Knowledge Management in the Services Sector, ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India.
“Globalization’s Bystanders: Are Countries That Do Not Participate in Globalization Hurt By It?,” with Alan V. Deardorff, World Development, August 2006 (Vol. 34, No. 8).
“Trade-Policy Issues and Policy Options for Japan and the United States: Introduction and Overview,” with Gary R. Saxonhouse, The World Economy, June 2006, Vol. 29 (6), 669-76.
“Computational Analysis of the Menu of U.S.-Japan Trade Policies,” with Drusilla K. Brown and Kozo Kiyota, The World Economy, June 2006, Vol. 29 (6), 805-55.
“Global Market Integration and National Sovereignty,” with Andrew G. Brown, The World Economy, March 2006, Vol. 29 (3), 257-79.
2005
“Overview: Perspectives on the WTO Doha Development Agenda Multilateral Trade Negotiations,” Global Economy Journal, Vol. 5 (4), December 2005.
“Issues of Manufactures Liberalization and Administered Protection in the Doha Round, with Alan V. Deardorff, Global Economy Journal, Vol. 5, December 2005. Also published in Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 13, No. 1, June 2006, pp. 51-58.
“An Assessment of the Economic Effects of the Menu of U.S. Trade Policies, with Kozo Kiyota, Global Economic Journal, Vol. 5(4), December 2005.
“Achieving Fairness in the Doha Development Round,” with Andrew G. Brown, Global Economy Journal, Vol. 5 (4), December 2005.
“Reversal of Fortune: Macroeconomic Policy, International Finance, and Banking in Japan,” with Gary R. Saxonhouse, International Economics and Economic Policy, December 2005.
“Computational Analysis of the U.S FTAs with Central America, Australia, And Morocco,” with Drusilla K. Brown and Kozo Kiyota, The World Economy, October 2005, Vol. 28 (10), 1445-90.